[quote=gandalf]
Same creepy line with creationism. If you teach evolution, you have to teach intelligent design. If you teach the Plato or Aquinas, you have to teach Rand. Required reading.
Right-wing zombies insist you subscribe to their moralizing bullshit, and are worse than Marxists. They aren’t conservative in any sense. Conservatives don’t do ‘required reading’.
As for Atlas Shrugged, it was interesting but not Great Books material. I don’t think anybody should be compelled to read it. The irony is laughable.[/quote]
[quote=walterwhite]Where are the really funny philosophers, other than Sarah Silverman.[/quote]
Matt Stone and Trey Parker (of South Park fame). South Park is simply the best show on TV, for regularly and mercilessly blowing all the Republocrat nonsense out of the water.
Also, I second the rec on Taleb, and in particular The Black Swan. Now that should be required reading.
[quote=walterwhite]Where are the really funny philosophers, other than Sarah Silverman.[/quote]
Matt Stone and Trey Parker (of South Park fame). South Park is simply the best show on TV, for regularly and mercilessly blowing all the Republocrat nonsense out of the water.
Also, I second the rec on Taleb, and in particular The Black Swan. Now that should be required reading.
[quote=walterwhite]Where are the really funny philosophers, other than Sarah Silverman.[/quote]
Matt Stone and Trey Parker (of South Park fame). South Park is simply the best show on TV, for regularly and mercilessly blowing all the Republocrat nonsense out of the water.
Also, I second the rec on Taleb, and in particular The Black Swan. Now that should be required reading.
[quote=walterwhite]Where are the really funny philosophers, other than Sarah Silverman.[/quote]
Matt Stone and Trey Parker (of South Park fame). South Park is simply the best show on TV, for regularly and mercilessly blowing all the Republocrat nonsense out of the water.
Also, I second the rec on Taleb, and in particular The Black Swan. Now that should be required reading.
